by Daniel Vreeman | May 19, 2018 | musing, project secret weapon
We just got an update from the Building Tomorrow Community Development Officer who is on site at the Mwiguru primary school supported by Project Secret Weapon’s Build-a-School campaign. The school construction is making great progress! It is wonderful to see the...
by Daniel Vreeman | Apr 14, 2018 | musing, project secret weapon
We are so excited to share that Project Secret Weapon’s Build-a-School campaign has been matched to the Building Tomorrow Primary School of Mwiguru! The school is now in the early stages of construction. Mwiguru is in Masindi District of western Uganda. Through...
by Daniel Vreeman | Jan 6, 2018 | musing, project secret weapon
We are so excited to announce that we have met out our goal for Project Secret Weapon to raise $30,000 in 2017. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this awesome adventure! Closing out 2017 by Celebrating the Success of Project Secret Weapon We couldn’t...
by Daniel Vreeman | Dec 23, 2017 | LOINC, musing
Almost no one needs all 87,000+ LOINC terms. Many countries that have adopted LOINC curate a nationally-approved list of LOINC terms for use in their jurisdiction. For example, LOINC subsets can help filter out all the mass-based LOINC terms that aren’t needed in a...
by Daniel Vreeman | Nov 24, 2017 | LOINC, musing
On November 20, Regenstrief provided its public comments on the current (2017) edition of the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) published by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). In the last year, the ONC has iteratively edited the ISA...
by Daniel Vreeman | Oct 28, 2017 | LOINC, musing
Health data is best standardized right at its source. When the head waters are pristine, everyone downstream benefits. Think about clinical laboratory results, which contribute to so many health decisions. It’s time consuming, complex, and resource intensive to have...
